FEST Writing Group

A mass murder takes place in Los Vegas and LeBron James takes to twitter asking the most provocative question - “What the hell is going on people!?!?” A world class team player, he understands the pain of ignorance, of being blindsided, of your team falling apart. Would LeBron see how the family itself is one factor.

It's our first effort at a blog for the Programs in Bowen Theory Website.  Here I put in the part of the conversation about  an about bridging cutoff.  I try and identify the principles to resolve the fusion that underlies the cutoff with several examples.  It represents my effort to write about ideas I've learned.

"The Emotional System: What am I Missing?"  On Friday, Oct. 6, at 12:00 pm, I will begin with a short slide presentation to generate discussion about the Emotional System with Stephanie and Jim Edd, and any others who can participate on Zoom for 25-30 minutes. One issue for me is how to keep the concept of.

In a recent meeting of the web based “Bowen Theory and Meditation” study group, sponsored by the Center for Family Consultation in Chicago, a Bowen theory scholar presented the following passage from a letter by Murray Bowen. On February 10, 1976, Bowen wrote about Transcendental Meditation and Yoga, in response to a woman from a.

Bayesian reasoning assigns probabilities of certainty/uncertainty to hypotheses about various parts of reality. Then it uses any additional new information to update the probabilities of these hypotheses. Keith Stanovich brought our rationality and dysrationality into focus in his book Rationality Quotient. Systems rationality(my term) includes the forms of rationality congruent with systems thinking. .

This is the summary my research and the goals that emerged, which I presented when I accepted the Polly Caskie Research Award at the last Spring Conference. It describes the basis of a paper I’m working on for publication in Family Systems, which I hope to submit very soon.  Any questions or puzzles or competing.

How humans became ultrasocial and what it means Stephanie Ferrera Economists John Gowdy and Lisi Krall published a paper, “The Economic Origins of Ultrasociality,” in the journal, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, in 2015.  They take a broad look at human social and economic evolution, concluding that humans are on a trajectory toward expansion and dominance in the.

I often have thought of public communications, particularly journalistic communications, as akin to the weather. It’s hot. It’s cold. It’s windy or snowy. For those of us who aren’t meteorologists or addicted to the Weather Channel, we simply adjust to the conditions and move on. Unless the rain ruins a beach day or the winds.

Reflections In an era of societal polarization how can I understand the power of the emotional system to manipulate me? One way: take time to think and write about an emotional event. That is my purpose here. What are the emotional triggers preventing me from acting with greater emotional maturity and living more optimally? When am I.

I have been trying to think about our current president in a more objective way. It is very challenging with all the emotional triggers presented on a daily basis. We are two weeks into a new administration and the tension in the country and even the world appears to be rising at a rapid pace. At.